ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,865, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to AI Inc. (Toronto).

"Autonomous versatile vehicle system" was invented by Ali Ebrahimi Afrouzi (Henderson, Nev.), Lukas Robinson (York, Canada), Shahin Fathi Djalali (San Leandro, Calif.) and Chen Zhang (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A delivery system, including a robot and an application of a communication device. The robot includes a tangible, non-transitory, machine readable medium storing instructions that when executed by the processor effectuates operations including: receiving, with the processor, a first location to deliver the one or more items to; obtaining, with the ...